The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-18
FINDING GOLD IN INDIA.
A Region Where Mining May Be Carried o
TO Great Advantage.

a Region Where Mining May BE Carrieo on
Great Advantage.
New York Tribune.
The recent dispatch from Simla announcing
the discovery of rich veins of gold bearing quartz
IN the Knlu valley is news of Importance. Such
a discovery will allure to Hindcostan English
mining element that may easily be induced to
remain there permanently. There is no other
part of the great penins ula where the climate is
suitable English temperaments. Here,
too. it is possible for English muscles to be ex-
erted with the same force as at home 1t is in
the immediate neghborhood of the great
sanitarium of the English official world.
Indeed. Simla is more than that. for
it is the recognized summer capital of
the Governor-general, and is also the capital OF
Umballah, also, not far off, is the greatest cavalry
station of the peninsula There will be diff
hculty in equpping narrow-gauge mountain
road to the mining centre wherever that may
ultimately be. This peculiarly fortunate loca-
ton makes the of mining operations
there. less doubtful than is usual in such cases,
for 1t materially lessons that important item of
preliminary expenses, and it will enable such
companies may be formed to obtain workmen
at moderate figures. With such q redundant
population as England possesses, there will be
no difficulty in inducing miners TO go to Simia,
which is VIGOROUSLY the paradise of the English
man in India.
The region of the foothills of the central Him
alaya mountain group enjoys a temperate eli
mate, which is positively chilly during the prev
alence of the southwest monsoons This is the
rainy season of the tropics This chliness is
exquisite delight to the white man who has been
boiled in his perspiration in Calcutta
Bombay, and 1t is universally conceded that
this. which some travellers have considered
drawback is in reality the chief virtue of the To-
cality, because it supplies the necessary bracing
to constitution that has lost its tone.
The English who reside there every
year have made experiments with English
fruits, flowers and vegetables, which grow to
perfection. They have introduced English
beeves and sheep from the Cape of Good Hope
and have made the place as English as possible,
so that the English workman who go out for
the mining companies that will be formed, will
have all those creature comforts in which they
revel with the advantage of delightful climate
that a mining town should not arise where Eng
lish families will reside permanently without any
wish to return to England.
There is something which the English govern
ment has long sought to compass. but has never
yet succeeded Englshmen in India in every
capacity have always been there like the soldiers
of a garrison; they do not settle there. The
climate is too detestable to permit it. But now
that the delicious foothills of the Himalayas,
rather the lateral spurs of the foothills
the great ranparts that hold up the
monstrous masses-are known to be aurifer-
the present discovery it an item of
popular belief current everywhere in India that
the Himaiayas held mineral treasures.
In eastern Thibet indeed, it was known that the
inhabitants did some gold washing and obtained
trifiing results but the disadvantages of that
locality so tremendous that investigators
declined even to make thorough search, and
mining interests there were never dreamed of
0y the most speculative capitalists.
In that long duel which England has been
reQerses of the Emir of Afghanistan counted a
strong point for the Muscovite, honors may
have been made easy by this fud and the
British must feel jubiant